Bruce Willis, said the actor’s 68th birthday celebrations caused her to feel “grief and sadness” amid his dementia diagnosis.In an emotional video posted to Instagram on Sunday, Heming Willis, 44, said she “started the morning by crying.”“I think it’s important that you see all sides of this,” she told her followers, referring to the struggles of dealing with Willis’ frontotemporal dementia (FTD).
Read more: Bruce Willis’ wife pleads with paparazzi to ‘give him space’ amid dementia struggle A post shared by Emma Heming Willis (@emmahemingwillis)In February, Willis’ family shared an update that the actor’s aphasia has progressed into FTD, a condition that often strikes younger patients than other forms of dementia.
Symptoms include difficulty with speech and movement and gradual memory loss.Heming Willis said people always call her “strong” for supporting her husband.
Read more: Lance Reddick, star of ‘The Wire’ and ‘John Wick,’ dead at 60 She continued: “But I’m also raising two kids in this, so sometimes in our lives we have to put our big girl panties on and get to it, and that’s what I’m doing.”Willis and Heming Willis share two daughters, 10 and eight years old.